Dr Maksims Babenko is a Civil and Structural Engineering graduate (University of Bradford). He has completed summer internship in the Centre for Polymer Micro and Nano Technology where he has conducted a high shear strain rate rheometry for a range of polymers, was responsible for light/energy collection device manufacturing and worked on an industrial collaboration project with Network Medical Products ltd. In 2015 he has competed his PhD in Heat Transfer at the Cavity-Polymer Interface in Microinjection Moulding. In 2016 completed a Postdoctoral research project which was in collaboration with one of the largest chemical companies to benchmark candidate polymer materials in terms of their suitability for polymer microneedles manufacturing.

Currently working on another Postdoctoral project dedicated to develop routes for application and measurement of covert features on products and packaging to provide protection against counterfeiting.

Babenko M. and Whiteside B.R. (2016): "Ultrasonic Injection Moulding: a Study of Thermal Behaviour and Nanofeature Replication
", 16th International Conference and Exhibition of the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology, Nottingham, UK.